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January 18, 2009|By Jeff Kunerth, Sentinel Staff Writer

ORLANDO -- Kweisi Mfume, former congressman and past president of the NAACP, will be the guest speaker at the 18th annual Arthur "Pappy" Kennedy Prayer Breakfast at 7:45 Monday at the First Baptist Church of Orlando, 3000 S. John Young Parkway. A $1,200 scholarship will be awarded to a black high-school senior. The breakfast, on Martin Luther King Day, honors Kennedy, who was the first African-American elected to the Orlando City Council, in 1972.